More than Autism

During my interactions with people with autism, I find it extremely difficult to help others to understand there are reasons behind all of our actions (behaviors).  These reasons might be counsciously, subconsciously or unconsciously intentional or unintentional, but they remain as the reason for our actions.  Naturally we try to read these actions as appropriate or inappropriate, but does the sense of appropriateness comes from our emotional availability to respond to the other?  Or does it come from how we are educated by the society or the system we are under without us questioning it?  Or is it genuinely a result of mindful logical reasoning?  I have observed that often medical professionals, some therapists, carers and parents would easily neglect the need of a person once they have been diagnosed with a label, rather than truly identifying the nature of their symptoms, often it is conveniently generalized in a term that doesn't mean much, other than imposing shame, discrimination and dis-functioning of a person.  A "person" with a diagnosis who senses, feels pain, shares feelings and thoughts like everyone else would.  The way how people with autism internalize these information and bring it to expression might be different from the norm, but that doesn't mean they do not have access to their inner world or lack the ability to develop relational skills.  They respond to their environment just like anyone else would, but in addition with the challenges of a different neurological order.  They are still people who go through the attachment stage, emotion & impulse regulation needs, eager for new information & experience,  they still go through physical, sensory & intellectual development like others would.  Possibly at different levels at a different pace which may require both inner and outer resources to help them adapt to a developmental rhythm that might be different from the majority.  But at the end of the day, don't we all look at life with the unique lens of our lives?  I think the use of giving a condition with a diagnosis is only good up to the point where it provides a guideline for therapies or treatments.  But somehow it is becoming so widely used as a convenience to define a person, where it could even hinder how efficient therapies are interpreted, how relevant or irrelevant a person's emotions, responses, reactions and behaviors are considered or not considered.  I am not advocating for autism rights here, but I am advocating the respect for human dignity within how diagnosis of any kind is translated and interpreted by the professionals to the society.  Diagnosis can create help, but it can also create hell.  

Here's a reading I find illustrates some of the misunderstandings of the diagnosis of Autism. 

"A lot of the discourse around autism relies on significant, unnecessary, and destructive logical leaps, and no one questions them, because it's AUTISM, and this apparently means that basic standards of rigor do not apply."   http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-love-wisdom/201209/respecting-autism